Fall 2024 Horizons Lectures
Professor Federico Ardila-Mantilla of San Francisco State University and the IAS will provide the Fall 2024 Horizons Lectures
Federico Ardila-Mantilla is a Colombian-American mathematician, educator, and musician. He has received the NSF CAREER Award and Simons Fellowship for his research, the MAA National Haimo Award for his teaching, and the AMS National "Mathematics Programs that Make a Difference" Award for his service work with MSRI-UP. Federico investigates objects in algebra, geometry, topology, and applications by understanding their underlying combinatorial structure. His interests include polytopes, matroids, hyperplane arrangements, Lie and Coxeter combinatorics, Hopf algebras, and tropical geometry. He was an ICM Invited Speaker in 2022, a Clay Lecturer in 2024, and an IAS Member in 2024-25. Federico is committed to fostering an increasingly just, equitable, and welcoming community of mathematicians. He has advised more than 50 thesis students, co-directed the MSRI-UP program for students from underrepresented groups, directs the SFSU-Colombia Combinatorics Initiative, and he hosts over 200 hours of combinatorics lectures online.
His efforts are grounded on the following axioms:
1. Mathematical potential is equally present among different groups, irrespective of geographic, demographic, and economic boundaries.
2. Everyone can have joyful, meaningful, and empowering mathematical experiences.
3. Mathematics is a powerful, malleable tool that can be shaped and used differently by various communities to serve their needs.
4. Every student deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
These statements should not sound revolutionary, but considering the current practices of the mathematical society, they are a pressing call to action.
PACM Colloquium
The Combinatorics of CAT(0) Cube Complexes
Monday, December 2, 2024
Fine Hall 214 / 4:30 PM — 5:30 PM
Horizons Seminar
Becoming Minority Mathematicians: a Conversation
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
McDonnell Hall A02 / 7:00 PM — 8:00 PM
Panel discussion with:
Haydee Lindo, Harvey Mudd College
Haydee Lindo is a Jamaican-American mathematician and educator, currently serving as an associate professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. She is an NSF supported commutative algebraist with research interests in homological algebra and representation theory. She is a 2024 winner of the MAA National Henry L. Alder award for teaching.
José Mijares-Palacios, California State University, Los Angeles
José Mijares is an associate professor in the department of mathematics at California State University Los Angeles. He earned a PhD diploma at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and completed his PhD studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has held faculty positions and visiting faculty positions at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia), University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver (postdoc position), among others. In 2016, he was an honoree of the American Mathematical Society Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration. In 2023, he was a Mathematically Gifted and Black honoree during the Black History Month Celebration, In 2024 he was a Visiting Faculty Collaborator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working in connections between Ramsey theory and quantum information science.